Manage Your Mind - Gillian Butler

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Résumé :
Manage Your Mind is a book for building resilience, overcoming emotional difficulties and enabling self-development. It is for any of us who wish to understand ourselves better, to be more effective in day-to-day life, or to overcome current problems...

Biographie:

• Part I: Making sense


• 1: The scientific background: knowing what works


• 2: Valuing and understanding yourself


• 3: The value and practice of acceptance


• 4: The value and practice of kindness


• 5: Building self-esteem and self-confidence


• Part II: Making your way


• Section 1: Thinking well


• 6: Taking a positive approach


• 7: Finding new perspectives


• 8: Using your head: thinking and deciding


• Section 2: Creating a framework


• 9: Developing useful habits


• 10: Goals and how to use them


• 11: Using time well


• 12: Keeping physically well


• Section 3: Being happy


• 13: Increasing the chance of happiness


• 14: Treating yourself right


• 15: Becoming more creative


• Section 4: Making your way with others


• 16: Good relationships: the principles


• 17: Assertiveness


• 18: Negotiation skills


• 19: Understanding voices from your past


• Part III: Overcoming difficulties


• Section 5: Preparing to tackle difficulties


• 20: Recognising that you can change: facing problems


• 21: Problem-solving: a strategy for change


• 22: Stress: balancing life's demands


• Section 6: Anxiety


• 23: Getting the better of worry: defeating the alarmist


• 24: Overcoming fears and avoidance: social anxiety and phobias


• 25: Dealing with panic


• Section 7: Low mood and anger


• 26: Depression: the common cold of the mind


• 27: Digging yourself out of depression


• 28: Feeling angry and keeping calm


• Section 8: Trauma and Loss


• 29: Loss and bereavement


• 30: Stepping away from the past


• 31: Recent traumatic events and their aftermath


• Section 9: Enduring physical difficulties


• 32: Chronic ill health


• 33: Breaking habits and overcoming addictions


• Online Only Material


• Some common defense mechanisms that impede understanding


• What kind of coach do you want to be?


• The mental crusher


• The Zeigarnik effect


• Blank Thought Records and Key Questions to go with them


• Alternatives diary blank form and key questions to go with it


• Aspects of personality to consider when developing new habits


• Planning your goal


• The Zeigarnik effect


• The David Allen approach


• Blank pie chart


• Relaxation


• Responding in a mature way to common voices of the Child


• Responding in a mature way to common voices of the Parent


• Worry-Outcome Diary


• Relaxation


• Developing confiding relationships to reduce your chance of depression


• Diary of daily activities


• Developing confiding relationships to reduce your chance of depression


• Blank Thought Records and Key Questions to go with them


• The legacy of being bullied


• Ground yourself in the here and now


• Habit monitoring record


• Stopping smoking


• Averting problems with alcohol